I'm callint bullshiat. Mainly because it's the Daily Mail. I mean we've caught them red-handed lying through their teeth. Remember the whole female dentist fiasco?/Also can you even fit all of the needed equipment in something that small and make it so it can fly?

Given how much taxpayers have been soaked for super-duper-mini UAVs that already don't work, the golf-ball sized super-duper-micro-UAVs are probably just vapour ware being released so some farkwit can get some free PR and eventually a contract for something else that won't work.

• How will it fly?• How will it be powered?• How will its connectivity work?• How will it be manufactured?• How will it be maintained?

If you can't answer all of these, you don't have a product. You have PR.

Let's be honest, look at the average government worker. Its probably some guy just trying to spy on naked housewives

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Yes, indeed. Out of the millions of government workers, the "average ones" will use drones to spy on housewives. That's sensible. They'll all leave their administrative or service positions to use drones to look at shiatty tits, because the internet doesn't exist.

SharkTrager:LasersHurt: SoCalSurfer: Well if you can't beat em, join em

Let's be honest, look at the average government worker. Its probably some guy just trying to spy on naked housewives

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Yes, indeed. Out of the millions of government workers, the "average ones" will use drones to spy on housewives. That's sensible. They'll all leave their administrative or service positions to use drones to look at shiatty tits, because the internet doesn't exist.

gaslight:Given how much taxpayers have been soaked for super-duper-mini UAVs that already don't work, the golf-ball sized super-duper-micro-UAVs are probably just vapour ware being released so some farkwit can get some free PR and eventually a contract for something else that won't work.

• How will it fly?• How will it be powered?• How will its connectivity work?• How will it be manufactured?• How will it be maintained?

If you can't answer all of these, you don't have a product. You have PR.

well if you make them small enough, hollow and light enough and paint them black, the warmth from the sun will cause them to float.

Cerebral Knievel:rohar: sfpfc: Shouldn't the common man be able to purchase these for personal security observance and protection. A flight path around my house armed with poison darts will be sufficient..

/pick up pizzas?

My property is already covered by video streams. They're all fed into a system that can understand "normal" "not normal" which alerts me when something's up.

How would drones on the property help?

For the lulz? If you are paranoid enough to cover everything with a video feed with a custom alert algorythem, then why not a swarm of little drones?

It's not that nutty really. I work for a firm that writes the video interpretation system. I've got livestock and don't wanna go out every 30 minutes during kidding season. Throw out a couple of more cameras and you're where I ended up.

/pain in the ass teaching it to recognize when an animal was going into labor//strange paths technology takes you

When people were given surveillance equipment and told to watch a house allegedly housing a terrorist they all ended up watching the actors hired to get naked next door. Similar studies have shown this is the case as well. It is also backed up by TSA actions.

SharkTrager:LasersHurt: Not regularly. What episode am I missing here?

They did one on The Patriot Act.

When people were given surveillance equipment and told to watch a house allegedly housing a terrorist they all ended up watching the actors hired to get naked next door. Similar studies have shown this is the case as well. It is also backed up by TSA actions.

Good thing there's nothing stupid about telling people to watch a house, then intentionally having someone strip next door with no curtain or blinds.

I love Penn and Teller and usually love their show, but that's pretty stupid.

I'm not worried because I honestly doubt this is real. I mean, it's the Daily Mail. Secondly, The Supreme Court would strike this down before the first golf ball left the ground. And if this project became reality, it wouldn't last long. It would just be too damn expensive to keep replacing the drones shot down by U.S. citizens.

Great Janitor:I'm not worried because I honestly doubt this is real. I mean, it's the Daily Mail. Secondly, The Supreme Court would strike this down before the first golf ball left the ground. And if this project became reality, it wouldn't last long. It would just be too damn expensive to keep replacing the drones shot down by U.S. citizens.

The golf ball sized drones part, yeah. I just don't the technology exists to make it practical.

Not sure what the big deal is? The various levels of Government already use surveillance devices to monitor certain people. I do not think that one new type of surveillance device will make the government any less likely to follow proper legal channels in obtaining "search warrants" to "spy" on people.

Wouldn't that take care of most digital camera surveillance? (I'm thinking of the effect where you can see your remote light up if viewed through your phone's camera. And wouldn't these drones need to use digital cameras purely out of weight requirements?)

Of course, that's almost literally like putting up a neon sign to the watchers saying "Hey. Hey you. Yeah, you. Look closer at me".

Mock26:Not sure what the big deal is? The various levels of Government already use surveillance devices to monitor certain people. I do not think that one new type of surveillance device will make the government any less likely to follow proper legal channels in obtaining "search warrants" to "spy" on people.

Warrants don't come in to play. Anything visible from a legally public place needs no warrant. You don't own the airspace over your home, so it's a legally public place.

The part that scares me isn't the unprecedented access, but the ability to automate decision making. Millions of hours of video can be consumed, analyzed and triggered on in minutes today with less than $2MM worth of hardware.